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Policy News: May 6, 2021

ESA

NSF releases 2021 Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering report. House Science Committee Chair Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-TX) introduced the House version of this bill in January 2021 ( H.R. He signed it into law. Executive Branch. International.

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

Three More PFAS Added to Toxics Release Inventory List for 2021 Reporting Year; EPA Announced Plans for More Additions to List. EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. EPA’s Spring 2021 Regulatory Agenda Contained Multiple TSCA Rulemaking Actions. 6, 2021).]]

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Third Circuit Holds that Air Emission Exceedances Governed by a Permit Are Not Subject to a Duplicative CERCLA Reporting Requirement

MGKF Law

Clean Air Council v. 20-2215, 2021 U.S. 2021); 42 U.S.C. § Thus, air emissions that violate relevant Clean Air Act permits are nevertheless “subject to” that permit and therefore exempt from CERCLA’s reporting requirement. Steel Corp. , LEXIS 18377, at *15 (W.D.

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The Chemical Compound—February 2021

Arnold Porter

On January 6, 2021, EPA published its final rule on "Strengthening Transparency in Pivotal Science Underlying Significant Regulatory Actions and Influential Scientific Information Rule."[[N: 6, 2021).]] 20, 2021).]] It also was reported that Congress might seek to use the Congressional Review Act to eliminate this rule.

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

PFAS Accountability Act of 2021 Would Create Federal Cause of Action for PFAS Exposure. PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS. 22, 2021).]] 23, 2021).]] 22, 2021); Int’l Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agric. 10, 2021); see also Envtl.

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Biden Administration Accelerates Federal Regulation of PFAS

Ohio Environmental Law

To address gaps found, EPA will issue orders under Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 4 authorities to require PFAS manufacturers to conduct and fund studies evaluating toxicity of PFAS compounds. EPA states the initial round of Section 4 Order are anticipated by December 2021. Reporting of PFAS Release and Uses.

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Lessons from the Pandemic About Making Decisions Without Statutes

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9, 2022) at SR-7. In my January 2021 column for the Legal Intelligencer ’s Pennsylvania Law Weekly I suggested the opposite, or maybe an inside-out version of the same thing: “[t]he governmental response to the viral pandemic is. Acting Sec’y Pa. 83 MAP 2021 (Pa. 29, 2021), is: In 42 U.S.C. 59,298 (Jan.